Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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